Here’s a recent character cake I created for a dear friend’s son’s 1st birthday. It’s complete with red mango buttercream fur and rice krispies eyes and nose! Simple, but sweet. read more »
And now for something completely different… My family and I recently went to visit my brother’s family in Maryland. We happened to go to their local supermarket which, it turns out, sold quite a variety of interesting and hard-to-find produce. Sour oranges, Thai eggplant, Jack fruit and…. durian! If you are not familiar with the name of this fruit, you might actually have seen it and not known what the heck it was. I personally, had seen them a number of times being sold down in Chinatown by the food stand vendors. They are large and melon-like with many spikes (they look ouch) and are sold usually in plastic meshes for easy carrying. read more »
This Hermes gift box cake I recently made is a nice combination of fashion and celebration. Gift box cakes are great, because they are so easily customizable. It’s also a lot more affordable. A great alternative to a sneaker or stiletto cake, or a handbag. read more »
I wanted to quickly share this cute and simple Sponge Bob cake I got make for a kid’s birthday. We weren’t going to take this to full-fledge sculpted, so I trimmed down a sheet cake and added shaped fondant limbs. I iced his face and features on. I also used black icing to make lines and borders like the cartoon, giving it a more stylized look. read more »
Here’s a little ensemble put together. Toy Story is quite the popular theme these days ever since Toy Story 3 was released. Adding cupcakes as extra decorations to a simple cake can dress up your cake presentation for any birthday, whether kids or adults.
I recently got to revisit the Golden Flower cake when a client requested the same cake for a 70th birthday celebration. I tweaked the design around a bit to include a third flower on the bottom tier. The client chose a neapolitan flavor combo of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry layers of cake. This cake’s design mode would also work well as a wedding cake.
While I don’t make a Buche de Noel every year, I have made it quite a number of times since I was 13. I like to try something different usually like a Paris Brest. For those of you not familiar with a Buche de Noel; it is french for Yule Log. This is a traditional Christmas chocolate jelly roll cake in France. read more »
Always a dilemma–the simply masculine birthday cake. I was told the color scheme was black, gold and silver. It is always a challenge to design a masculine cake when you have been stripped of all possibility of 3D ideas or themes. No falling on the usually crutches of bows, flowers, etc. My next thought was to use fabric patterns. My client wanted simple so I couldn’t get all crazy either, however, I still wanted the design to standout as unique. I finally decided to let the “30″ stand out as my focal point, which worked. This was a really good exercise for design. Not the greatest photo, but here it is, folks! We have now done a simple masculine birthday cake.
I wanted to share a couple of baby shower cakes I recently got to create, because it branched into an area I rarely tread–human figures. I, personally, find the thought of cakes shaped into people or having edible human figures on cakes a little off-putting. I know it’s a crazy psychologically thing, but it’s still disconcerting for me nonetheless. read more »
